José Iglesias de la Casa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish poet
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Place of Birth: Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain
About José Iglesias de la Casa
- José Iglesias de la Casa (31 October 1748, Salamanca – 26 August 1791, Carbajosa de la Sagrada) was a Spanish priest and poet.
- He pursued his studies at the University of Salamanca, and in 1783 took holy orders at Madrid.
- During his lifetime he published two minor poems, "La niñez Laureada" (dealing with an infant prodigy, who at the age of hardly four years underwent a university examination), and "La Teclogia".
- Before producing these he had composed his really important poems, which are chiefly satirical and epigrammatical in their nature.
- In fact, as a satirist he is to be ranked only lower than Francisco de Quevedo.
- Certain portions of his satirical lyrics provided offense to the authorities, and the 1798 edition of them was put on the Index by the Inquisition.
- The necessity of this action was denied by some of his warm friends.
- Among the better-known editions of his works are those of Barcelona (1820 and 1837), of Paris (1821), and of Madrid (1841).
- They are most readily accessible in the "Biblioteca de autores Españoles", vol.
- LXI, which contains about 38 letrillas - in the composition of which he excelled - besides a number of satires, epigrams, odes, anacreontics, eclogues, etc.
- Some of his unedited poems were published by R.
- Foulche-Delbosc, in the "Revue Hispanique", vol.
- II.
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